Advanced Blackmagic OS

The world’s most intuitive and fastest professional broadcast camera

URSA Broadcast features the advanced Blackmagic OS software designed to make using your camera super fast and more intuitive than ever. All important camera functions can be accessed with a single tap on the new heads up display, there’s a digital “slate” that makes metadata entry a breeze, and a dashboard that uses simple tap and swipe gestures for record settings, monitoring, audio, camera setup, presets and more. Each feature in the camera runs as a separate high performance app so you get better stability than other simple camera software. Best of all, when new software updates are available, you can simply download them and connect your computer to the camera's USB‑C connector to upload the latest software to the camera. For safety you can even downgrade software in case you need to go back a software version for any reason.

On Screen Heads Up Display

Instantly see and adjust the most important settings with a single tap!

The heads up display, or HUD, contains critical information such as the frame rate, iris, timecode, shutter speed, white balance, gain, audio levels and more. You can show or hide the heads up display by simply swiping up or down. For example, you can adjust settings such as white balance by simply touching the WB indicator, or change the audio levels by touching the audio meters. Everything is interactive, so tapping any item lets you instantaneously change its settings without having to search through confusing menus!

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Fast Adjustments With A Single Tap

Quickly change settings and see how they affect your image in realtime!

Monitor

FPS

Shutter Speed

Iris

Timecode

Gain

White Balance/Tint

Power

Flexible Monitoring Options

The monitor tab gives you total control over what is displayed on the built in LCD touchscreen, the front SDI for the viewfinder and the main SDI output. Each output can have independent overlays and you can select to send a clean feed, zebra, focus assist, frame guides and more to any or all outputs. You can even set the resolution and choose LUTs for each output!. Best of all, you can define different display status text for the cinematographer and the director, and then send that information out to different SDI outputs, so the right people see the right information!

Set Frames Per Second

You can capture dynamic high speed and slow motion effects by independently adjusting project and sensor frame rates! Simply tap the “FPS” indicator to change the project frame rate, which is the play back speed, then enable the “off speed” or sensor recording frame rate for high speed or slow motion capture!

Change Shutter Speed

URSA Broadcast cameras feature the most intuitive shutter controls of any camera! You can use them to affect the amount of motion blur or to compensate for varying light conditions. Select from common shutter speeds, either manually or let the camera automatically suggest flicker free shutter speeds for you!

Adjust Iris

Adjusting the iris, which controls the amount of light that passes through the lens, is simple! If you have an automatic lens, just tap on the indicator and it will display options for your compatible lenses and let you configure different iris based exposure modes!

Select Timecode

The timecode display at the top center has a variety of options that tell you everything you need to know with just a quick glance. You can see the duration of your clips, it turns red when recording, lets you monitor timecode and also features status indicators for time of day timecode, external timecode and more!

Set Gain

The camera’s sensor has excellent light sensitivity and is designed to give you the best possible image based on the available light! Tapping on gain lets you quickly change the setting while still viewing the image. That means you can see how different settings affect the image instantaneously because you don't have to switch back and forth between a separate menu and the image!

Set White Balance with Tint

Changing the white balance is super fast! Simply tap the WB indicator to display a list of common color temperature presets such as bright sunlight, incandescent, fluorescent and more. You can enter values manually and compare custom white balance setting to the last preset by simply tapping it on and off! You can even auto white balance using a white card so you can compensate perfectly for any lighting condition.

Display Power

With URSA Broadcast, you can choose exactly how you want to view your battery status! The battery indicator at the top right of the HUD will show battery life remaining in either percentage, battery bars or voltage. When plugged into mains power, the battery indicator will say “AC”. When using Blackmagic Camera Fiber Converter, the battery indicator will say “Fiber”.

Fast Camera Settings

Incredible new dashboard gives you complete control!

The new dashboard has six tabs with elegant, simple to understand interfaces that give you quick access and complete control over every setting and feature on the camera! Simply tap on the record, monitor, audio, setup, presets, or LUTs tab to access everything with just a few taps. The unique design of the interface offers visual consistency that puts items in the same logical order every time so you can quickly learn where settings are and remember how to change them!

Simplified Recording Setup

Quickly check or change recording settings!

The record tab gives you a revolutionary, fast to use interface for selecting the recording format, resolution, frame rate and more! Simply tap on DNx, ProRes or even RAW and the appropriate variations such as compression ratios will light up underneath them so you can make your selection and then choose the resolution. The record tab also lets you adjust the dynamic range for film, extended video or video, frame rate, preferred card recording options, time lapse, sharpening level and more!

Advanced Digital Slate

Direct enter metadata rightinto the camera for rapid shooting!

URSA Broadcast features a digital “slate” and metadata features that make it extremely fast to add information to any shot! Simply swipe left or right to bring up the digital slate. You get intelligent, predictive entry suggestions that can be added as metadata tags with a simple tap! Plus, if you start and stop recording, URSA Broadcast automatically increments take numbers so you don’t have to enter them manually for each shot. It will also increment your reel numbers each time you format a card. In addition, lens metadata is automatically detected from electronic lenses, or it can be entered manually, along with production specific information, technical information and much more! All of this metadata is saved with the files and available in post production when editing and color correcting with software such as DaVinci Resolve!

Flexible Monitoring Options

Adjust text, overlays and other options for all outputs!

The monitor tab gives you total control over what is displayed on the built in LCD touchscreen, the front SDI for the viewfinder and the main SDI output. Each output can have independent overlays and you can select to send a clean feed, zebra, focus assist, frame guides and more to any or all outputs. You can even set the resolution and choose LUTs for each output! Best of all, you can define different display status text for the cinematographer and the director, and then send that information out to different SDI outputs, so the right people see the right information!

Professional Audio Control

Adjust audio input and monitoring settings!

You can quickly adjust audio levels using the interactive HUD, but for complete control over audio settings, you can also use the audio tab on the dashboard. You can change inputs from camera mic to XLR, adjust headphone and speaker levels, mic levels, low cut filter and more. When adjusting XLR settings, you can choose whether you want to use mic or line levels independently for channel 1 and 2, turn on 48v of phantom power so you can use microphones that are not self powered, and adjust the gain for each input!

Save and Load Presets

Now you can create setups fordifferent users and productions!

Different operators like to set up their cameras in different ways. Plus, different shows can require different setups too! With URSA Broadcast you can create and save 12 custom presets by using the presets tab in the dashboard. Presets can even be saved to CFast or SD cards and loaded on different cameras, making it fast to set up multiple cameras so they all have the same settings! If you often switch cameras, you can save your own presets to a card and load them on any URSA Broadcast on any shoot!

General Camera Setup

The quickest way to set up your camera!

Getting your camera out of the box, set up and ready to go has never been faster or easier! The setup tab on the dashboard lets your enter the date and time, select the language, shutter measurement, electrical system, battery display, timecode and more. If you’re working on a multi camera shoot with a live production switcher such as ATEM, you can set the camera ID so it can receive tally and control signals from the switcher. You can also default to sending color bars rather than a preview image, adjust camera to talkback sound levels, reference timing and more. You can even completely customize the behavior of the camera’s external F1 and F2 buttons to trigger presets, adjust values up and down, or to toggle certain features on and off!

Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro F Mount

The URSA Mini Pro F Mount lets you use your favorite Nikon stills lenses with smooth high precision mechanical iris control. Now you can pair digital film quality with classic Nikon AF‑S G and AF‑D series lenses.

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